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<span class=large>THE SECOND BOOK OF NEPHI</span>
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CHAPTER 7
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Isaiah speaks Messianically—Messiah shall have the tongue of the learned—He shall give his back to the smiters—He shall not be confounded—Compare <a href="isa/50">Isaiah 50</a>.  Between 559 and 545 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 50: 1 (1-11); 2 Ne. 8: 1."><span class='smallcaps'>Yea</span></a>, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever?  For thus saith the Lord: Where is the <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Jer. 3: 8.">bill</a> of your mother’s <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/7/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Divorce.">divorcement</a>?  To whom have I put thee away, or to which of my <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/7/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 4: 1; Matt. 18: 25.">creditors</a> have I <sup>e</sup><a href="2_ne/7/1e" mark="e" type="C" title="Judg. 4: 2; Isa. 52: 3; TG Apostasy of Israel.">sold</a> you?  Yea, to whom have I sold you?  Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
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Wherefore, when I came, there was no man; when I <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 1: 24 (24-27); Isa. 65: 12; Alma 5: 37.">called</a>, yea, there was none to answer.  O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver?  Behold, at my rebuke I <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Nahum 1: 4.">dry</a> up the <sup>c</sup><a href="2_ne/7/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ex. 14: 21 (1-31); Ps. 106: 9; D&C 133: 68.">sea</a>, I make their <sup>d</sup><a href="2_ne/7/2d" mark="d" type="A" title="Josh. 3: 16 (15-16).">rivers</a> a wilderness and their <sup>e</sup><a href="2_ne/7/2e" mark="e" type="A" title="Ex. 7: 21 (17-21).">fish</a> to stink because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst.
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I clothe the heavens with <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 10: 21.">blackness</a>, and I make <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Rev. 6: 12.">sackcloth</a> their covering.
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The Lord God hath given me the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 21: 15.">tongue</a> of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season unto thee, O house of Israel.  When ye are weary he waketh morning by morning.  He waketh mine ear to hear as the learned.
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The Lord God hath opened mine <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 58: 1.">ear</a>, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
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I gave my back to the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 53: 4; Matt. 27: 26; 2 Ne. 9: 5 (4-7).">smiter</a>, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair.  I hid not my face from <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Shame.">shame</a> and spitting.
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For the Lord God will help me, therefore shall I not be confounded.  Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 9: 33.">ashamed</a>.
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And the Lord is near, and he <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 8: 33 (32-34).">justifieth</a> me.  Who will contend with me?  Let us stand together.  Who is mine adversary?  Let him come near me, and I will <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 11: 4.">smite</a> him with the strength of my mouth.
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For the Lord God will help me.  And all they who shall <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Rom. 8: 31.">condemn</a> me, behold, all they shall <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 102: 26.">wax</a> old as a garment, and the moth shall eat them up.
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Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 1: 38.">voice</a> of his servant, that <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walketh</a> in darkness and hath no light?
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Behold all ye that kindle fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks, walk in the light of <sup>a</sup><a href="2_ne/7/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 8; Judg. 17: 6.">your</a> fire and in the sparks which ye have kindled.  <sup>b</sup><a href="2_ne/7/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 133: 70.">This</a> shall ye have of mine hand—ye shall lie down in sorrow.
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